Samīħ al-Qāsim (Arabic: سميح القاسم ; Hebrew: סמיח אל קאסם; 1939 - August 19, 2014) was an Arabic-language poet whose work is well known throughout the Arab world. Son of a Palestinian Druze fami…
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in …
Special and general theories of relativity of German-born American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a base for the exploit…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Ci…
محمود درويش Mahmoud Darwish was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became…
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
A social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.…
Takuboku Ishikawa (石川 啄木 February 20, 1886 – April 13, 1912) was a Japanese poet. He died of tuberculosis. Well-known as both a tanka and "modern-style" (新体詩 shintaishi?) or "free-style" (自由詩 jiyūshi?…
Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been cal…
أبو عبد الله محمد بن إدريس الشافعيّ المطَّلِبيّ القرشيّ، فقيه وإمام من أئمة أهل السنة والجماعة، وصاحب المذهب الشافعي في الفقه الإسلامي، ومؤسس علم أصول الفقه، وه…
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
Santiago Posteguillo is senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He is also president of the European Association of Languages for Specific Pur…
ولد أمل دنقل بقرية القلعه مركز قفط على مسافه قريبه من مدينة قنا في صعيد مصر وقد كان والده عالما من علماء الأزهر الشريف مما اثر في شخصية أمل دنقل وقصائده بشكل واضح. سمي أمل دنقل بهذا الاسم لانه ولد بنف…
روائي وكاتب ومُحاضر وناشر وباحث في العلوم ومؤسس دار نوفا للنشر والتوزيع ودار فانتازيا للنشر والتوزيع ومهندس كويتي، يعتبر من أوائل الكتاب الكويتيين وربما الخليجيين الذين كتبوا في عالم ما وراء الطبيعة و…
ممدوح عدوان كاتب وشاعر ومسرحي سوري. ولد في قرية قيرون (مصياف) عام 1941. تلقى تعليمه في مصياف، وتخرج في جامعة دمشق حاملاً الإجازة في اللغة الإنكليزية، عمل في الصحافة الأدبية، وبث له التلفزيون العربي ال…
Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms…
Jesús Marchamalo García (Madrid, 1960) es periodista y escritor, y cuenta con una amplia experiencia en medios de comunicación. Comenzó a trabajar en el diario Pueblo a principios de los ochenta, de d…
شاعرة عراقية محدثة. تعد محطة مهمة من محطات الشعر في العراق ولدت الشاعرة لعائلة صابئية مندائية عراقية في منطقة الكريمات وهي منطقة تقع في لب المنطقة القديمة من بغداد.والمحصورة بين جسر الاحرار والسفارة ا…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
شاعر سوداني ولد في الرياض وتلقى فيها دراسته حتى الثانوية ثم أكمل دراسته الجامعية في الجامعة الأردنية . استشرافية شفافة . تناقلته الصالونات الشعرية والمنتديات الأدبية في شتى العواصم العربية. فاز ديوانه ا…
Mourid Barghouti is a Palestinian poet and writer. He has published 12 books of poetry, the last of which is Muntasaf al-Lail (Midnight). His Collected Works came out in Beirut in 1997. In 2000 he was…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award …
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabb…
